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COASTAL WINE & SPIRITS

Beer Store
 
3 Must Visit Spots On The Shoreline | Connecticut Food & Wine
COASTAL WINE & SPIRITS
 
Just off Route 95 on North Main Street in Branford at a newish shopping mall lies COASTAL WINE & SPIRITS. This warehouse-sized liquor store offers the greatest selection of craft beers in the state of Connecticut as of October 2012. While perusing Coastal’s varied selection, salesman Jeff Corcoran provided help finding previously untried brews from Boss, Clown Shoes, Emelisse, Evil Twin, Moa, Omnipollo, Porterhouse and Stillwater. Prices were reasonable and the knowledgeable staff treat customers with ultimate respect.

TIMMERMANS STRAWBERRY LAMBIC

Beers A-Z
Abundant strawberry-jammed sweetness provides natural flavor straight from the fruit. Rich strawberry-seeded mouthfeel and sugary gum tongue make fruity malt beverage taste like a tart springtime strawberry that’s been freshly picked. White-wined cider snip, light lemon pucker and minute cranberry-cherry souring found in saccharine soda pop recess. Try in lieu of a strawberry daiquiri.

TIMMERMANS KRIEK LAMBIC

Beers A-Z
Intensely sweet rosy amber-hued malt beverage with natural flavoring retains syrupy cherry soda pop sugaring. Maraschino cherry ripeness contrasts mouth-puckering Grenadine souring, tannic red-green grape tartness and minor medicinal murk. Tertiary strawberry, cranberry, watermelon, tangerine and red apple illusions peak through cherry-bound Jolly Rancher sway of sweet-toothed 4% dessert treat.